>> I still don't get that Mandrake team has made such a user >> friendly distribution, but did you create command-line software >> update package management software. Can we use yum for that?
URPMI has a graphical front end, called rpmdrake. It's in every Mandrake 10 distribution. However, MNF doesn't include a graphical X server (for very real security reasons), so urpmi is the way to go. Yes, you can use YUM if you want to and are familiar with it, but urpmi is just as simple. Once set up using easy urpmi, just set up a cron job that says: urpmi.update -a && urpmi --auto-select and the system will automatically update itself. The MNF was designed to be web-based, and the update mechanism is built into that. Unfortunately, in the "community" (i.e. free as in beer) version the update is disabled (this is not uncommon, SuSE does it with SLES). However, it is easily (at least to me) hackable to use one of the public update mirrors out there. ______________________________ Justin Grote Network Architect, CCNA JWG Networks Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove nospam-) SMS: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove nospam-) Phone: (208) 631-5440
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